PeverilPeril

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  1. LizzieM - I'll probably have a look around there + Colwick Marina. My boat is easy to launch and retrieve - do it without help in France. When/if I get to row on the Trent I will be looking for a crew member. I will row and the crew member will steer with a paddle. Nice safe boat.
  2. #10 re Trent Lane slipway. Looking at Google pics it looks like the slipway is for the two river cruise firms on the site. There does not seem to be a public slipway between Beeston and Colwick.
  3. It transpires that I do need a license for a rowing boat. The Canal & River Trust website is out of date and difficult to NAVIGATE! Anyway, I'll get on the river somehow - even if it is on some oil drums strapped together. As an aside - as a boy I paddled across the Trent astride a railway sleeper that me and my mates nicked from the Wilford side
  4. Thanks again phil - I followed their flow chart and it stated 'no license required'. I have emailed them to make sure. Insurance is only £36 pa so it would be silly not to get cover. Interestingly, the policy would include some overseas use which is useful because the boat is in France at the mo. I was not able to start rowing with NRC due to age and insurance issues but that was using racing boats. My boat is an unsinkable heavy skiff and I am planning to row past NRC and cock a snoot as I pass
  5. Thanks phil. As far as I can determine a rowing boat does not need a license, but I will look into the insurance situation.
  6. Does anyone know where I could launch a rowing boat on the Trent? I am excluding the rowing clubs slipways because they have strict rules and insurance issues. Looking for somewhere quiet with a slipway.
  7. Before I had a proper bike I remember riding a 'Fairy cycle' - today's equiv is a junior pavement cycle. Dad bought me a s/h Raleigh for Xmas 1949 It had rod brakes and was single speed. I was so thrilled because it offered me FREEDOM Cycled as far as Farndon on that heavy bike.This was swapped for a 'skidkid' bike when I was 13. Cow horn bars and low saddle - great trick bike for showing off. Sold off a lot of bikes but still have 7, not counting a junior 'ordinary'. Hanging on to my Dolan carbon TT bike in the hope of making a comeback when I'm 80
  8. #174 The Bug hole was the Boulevard cinema on Radford Rd. Heading towards Basford, past The Grand on the left, cross Gregory Bvd and it was on the right. Supermarket there now. Cheapest matinee seats were -/4 pence. They were wooden seats on long cast iron frames bolted to the floor. Someone took a spanner in once and caused a whole row of occupied seat to collapse! My Auntie Evelyn was also shot on the temple with an air gun.there. Narrowly missed her eye and knocked here out. Usherettes sold penny and tuppenny suckers at the interval. And people say that Hyson Green has gone downhill since
  9. The Raleigh Record Ace (RRA) was the top racing bike in the 50's. Reg Harris won World titles on them and top amateurs were 'given' them. In the days of pure amateurs the sponsorship by manufacturers was closely monitored. Lloyd Binch and Ray Booty our National sprint and TT champions were given RRA's that had been hand crafted just for them. My pals dad was the top wheel builder at Raleigh;.He built their racing wheels for tubular tyres. He built my wheels in his shed too. Every time I visited my mate his dad would give my wheels a spin and give then a touch with the spoke key that was always
  10. If you want a real laugh then turn on the sub titles! I have to because I'm deaf. Sub titles on some TV programs are just as bad (and funny sometimes).
  11. Talking to trees may seem quite silly or eccentric to some, but there is a sound, logical reason for it. I talk (silently) to all sorts of things such as special natural scenes such as swaying grass or heather. It is just a way of acknowledging what is around us and part of our existence. I don't think of myself as a tree hugger - just an observer of the most important and precious things that keep us alive..
  12. darkazana - the Larch tree got her own back on me yesterday. I had to chainsaw several big branches off that were threatening the phone wires and cottage. As I was manoeuvring a heavy branch ready to cut into logs it slipped (moved by an unseen hand?) and it fell across my foot!*!*! I was sure that it had broken my instep. Needed medical attention but a lot better today. I should have said a few words of apology before firing up the chainsaw
  13. When my 3 grandsons were born I suggested that they used my granddads Christian name. No takers. Great grandson - no thanks. Well it's my middle name and I'm proud of it! We would not have potatoes or tobacco if it wern't for my old namesake.... or bikes.
  14. Manager of men's clothing shop with tape measure around his neck, like a docs stethoscope.
  15. Thanks Compo. It must be 35 years since I fished there. Looking forwards to my trip to the Asynt region late May early June.
  16. Even Lord Lucan could not replicate a Nottingham Accent. It has confounded many a top actors.
  17. Payday was on a Thursday at the ROF. Started straight after Christmas 53 just turned 15. wages 27/6- which I gave to Mam. She gave me five bob back which was great to start with. After 6 months I got 32/- a week and Mam started giving me ten bob. As a proper apprentice at 16 my wages were about £2.10 shillings and I started giving Mam houskeeping of 30/- which it stayed at for a few years and I became rich with pound notes in my pocket every Thursday. Didn't start going on the town until late teens, preferring the youth club and spending my money on bikes and tailored suits. First tailored sui
  18. The water that flows through our village reaches Nottingham the day after.
  19. That's it Enigma - Ravenshaw. I remember that we used to snigger when one of the masters kept calling our dorm Brackenshaw instead of Brackenhurst. The swimming pool reminds me of a very chilly afternoon when our dorm had a swimming session. We all stood around shivering and didn't want to go in. One of the masters came along and poured a kettle of hot water in and said "get in there - you have no excuse now!"
  20. Thanks for those memory awakening pictures Enigma. I'm trying to remember the dormitory names. Brackenhurst, Hartsmere and Chetwynd are ones I stayed in. There was one, possibly two more?
  21. Second row from top Mr Pearce in glasses. He was headmaster when I was there. He was also my form master at Berridge before that. A really nice man and great, well respected teacher. Note - not a single fat kid or teacher in those pics!
  22. Compo #100 those temps were what the forcasters said on telly. Great pics - is that Loch Watten?
  23. A hole in the road without a digging machine next to it!
  24. Eyup Gary. I lived on Speechly St as a toddler C1940. Speechy St is now long gone and the new Berridge Infants school is now where it was. I moved further up Hyson Green to Peveril St., in 1942. Attended Berridge Sec Mod1949/53. So a bit before your time.
  25. Driven Defenders and surprised how comfortable they were. Had 2 Disco's from new and were both very reliable, however my old Toyota Hilux was better off road. For all of it's computerised, all terrain settings, the Disco mk3 was no match for my 1993 Toyota when things got really serious..